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Board Rates & Policy

 

Full Board: $635 per month


Full Board Includes the following:


  • Monitoring of vaccination records
  • A well ventilated 12' x 12' stall with a large dutch door window to the outdoors
  • Solid Rubber stall flooring over a level compacted bluestone & limed sand base 
  • Rust-free easy to open stall door & rust-free stall front
  • Naturally illuminated wide concrete aisles with powerful overhead fans 
  • Automatic waterers that are cleaned regularly and inspected twice daily
  • Softened & filtered well water that is periodically inspected
  • Individual stall lighting switch and power outlet next to stall door to power grooming equipment  
  • Private full height storage locker with space for two saddles, tack & ample supplies 
  • Stalls cleaned daily & shavings replaced as needed (2x daily when turnout is not practical)
  • Ailes blown clean several times daily and pressure washed as needed
  • Interior barn ceiling and walls cleaned as needed, spider webs removed seasonally
  • Blanket handling including multiple blankets year round
  • Scheduling assistance with vet on call (Dominion Equine Clinic)
  • Scheduling assistance with our farrier on call
  • Hold for vet or farrier (either of the above)
  • Timed automatic Pro-Tech Pyrethrin fly & mosquito spray with deoderant throughout barn 12 times daily (during fly & mosquito season every two hours round the clock)
  • Mosquito control sprayed as needed along pasture fence lines, ditches and lake
  • Turnout on grass pasture seven days per week weather permitting 
  • Pastures with warm & cool season fescues, Kentucky bluegrass, Orchardgrass, Canadagrass, annual & perennial rye & Oat grasses (soil tested bi-annually, limed and organically fertilized as needed)
  • Broodmare pastures with white clover, endophyte free fescues, Orchardgrass, Timothy, Italian rye & Oat grass
  • Select quality timothy, fescue or alfalfa hay fed twice daily in stall or field with as many flakes as needed for proper diet and to prevent ulcers (includes extra hay and feed provisions for trailering and shows)
  • Individual feeding twice daily, supplements added to feed as necessary (no additional or hidden labor charges if horse needs numerous owner supplied supplements or daily oral meds)
  • Lighted outdoor riding arena with adjoining lunge / dressage area
  • Pony starting lunge pen (36') with clay & sand
  • Sixty foot portable lunge pen on compacted sand
  • Two 12’ x 12’ center draining indoor wash racks with warm water and over-stall heat 
  • Powered cupola ventilation
  • Tack cleaning area
  • Heated & Air conditioned lounge
  • Emergency backup barn power to keep water flowing 24/7 
  • Trailer storage
In addition to full board, Briarwood Farm offers mare and foal care:
  • AI coordination with onsite vet facilities
  • Breeding consulting
  • Live video & sound monitored foaling stalls
  • Four private 14'x12' stalls with removable partitions for up to 14'x24'
  • Foaling attendance round the clock and mare watch cameras via internet
  • Heated and air conditioned loft with foal observation light and overhead monitoring window to facilitate watching mare without disturbing her.
For lowered health risk, no horse will be allowed to board or visit Briarwood Farm without a veterinary health certificate of vaccination records & Negative Coggins.  No exceptions.
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Lessons

  • Private Lesson - $40
  • Group Lesson - $35
  • Schooling of horse / session - $30
  • Visitor use of facilities / session - $25
Misc.
  • Transportation / mile - $1.50 per mile
     / $50 local
  • Full Body Clip - Will arrange 
  • Hunter Clip - Will arrange 
  • Braid Mane - Will arrange    
  • Pull Mane - $20
  • Trim Face - $15
  • Groom / day - $10
  • Leg Wrap - $5
  • Private Turnout / month - $50
  • Wash stall cleanup - Priceless   After cleaning and grooming your horse, it is you or your childs responsibility to scoop the poop, hose down the walls and keep the floor drains clear of debris in the wash stall as a courtesy to the next boarder who also deserves a reasonably clean place to work.  The drains are easily opened by using a hoof pick.  It only takes a few minutes.

                            

To help prevent respiratory distress and preventable health ailments we strive to maintain a healthy stall environment.  Briarwood Farm stalls are built on an elevated three foot deep pellet limed sand foundation topped with level bluestone.  These features offer proven excellent stall drainage while preventing the formation of mold, mildew, sulphur, ammonia, other lung irritants and bacterial sources of objectionable odors.  Reasonable efforts are made to maintain flatness of the stall flooring.                  
Briarwood Farm is open seven days a week.
 
Helping to keep the barn safe, pleasant and enjoyable for everyone 
and minimizing the cost of barn labor is every boarders responsibility.
In addition:
  • All riders and boarders are required to have on record a signed boarding agreement and liability release
  • If you need to be in the barn before 5am or after 9pm, please notify staff
  • ASTM Approved helmet and proper riding apparel are required when riding (no riding in shorts allowed)
  • Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
  • Appropriate clothing required (No tank tops, belly shirts or sandals)
  • Smoking, alcohol, rudeness and foul language are not acceptable
  • In the event someone other than the owner and or his/her family members want to remove, handle or ride specific boarded horses, such parties must have written permission or other agreed upon prearranged permission
  • Horses must have a copy of a current Coggins test on file as well as proof of immunizations!  NO EXCEPTIONS
  • Horses will follow the barns immunization program, no exceptions
  • Newly arriving horses will be wormed upon arrival and thereafter will follow the barns deworming schedule
  • No box fans allowed in the barn to prevent fire hazard
  • No grooming in the aisles, we prefer that the horses be groomed and tacked up in the boarding or wash stalls
  • After cleaning and grooming a horse it is the boarders responsibility to rinse off the walls and floor of the wash stall.  The drains are easily opened by using a hoof pick.
  • We do not accept horses with stable vices such as cribbing
  • Each boarders horse needs to have a leather halter with name plate
  • Junior riders may not jump without suitable supervision
  • No visitor dogs allowed
  • Employees only are allowed to operate farm machinery

For everyones safety: please avoid the use of glass containers and do not use harsh cleaning chemicals or insecticides that are not intended for use on horses.  Accidents caused by visiting dogs are not covered by our insurance. 


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